The Supplies Manager displays supplies within the model. The main part of the Supplies Manager presents one Supply per row.

The Supplies Manager is accessed from the Accounting, then Supplies Manager menu on the main RiverWare workspace. There is only one Supplies Manager for a given model. Figure 3.23 shows the window with key areas highlighted.

The Supplies Manager List presents one Supply per row, with three columns of information about the Supplies. The width of the columns can be adjusted by dragging the line separating the column headings.

The first of the three columns is always the Supply Name (which can be quite long). The content of the other two columns is Configurable by the user through the Data Column1 and Data Column2 menu bar items. Within these two menus is the option to select the data display, as shown in Figure 3.24. The selected variable has a check mark next to it.

Supplies that represent internal transfers between two accounts on the same object are shown in Green text. Supplies between Accounts on different Objects which are not directly physically linked (technically, this is an error condition) are shown in Red text. Currently, if the upstream and downstream Objects are linked together on any slots, the Supply is shown to be normal (not Red), even if the slots used for the link(s) don’t make sense. (It is the user’s responsibility to insure that the links make sense).

When a particular Object is selected for filtering (see next section), Supplies that represent Outflows from that object are shown in Blue text. (Supplies which represent Inflows to the Object are shown in Black).

The Supplies Manager can show all the Supplies in a model or a filtered subset of Supplies. The user can filter supplies by the type of the destination account. This is done using the Show Supplies to toggle area and selecting one or more of the following types: Storage, passthrough, instream flow, and/or diversion accounts.

Also, the Supply Manager can present only the Supplies related to a particular simulation object. If filtering by an object is specified by checking the Supplies to/from Object, the list of Supplies shown is limited to those which represent inflows (into the object) and/or outflows (from the object) and/or internal flow (between two accounts on the object). The internal flow toggle and the outflows toggle are shown respectively in Green and Blue to correspond to the color annotation of supply rows.

The first time the user toggles on the Supplies to/from Object, an object selector window appears. The user can also select Object, then Select from the menu bar to select a different object using the selector.

The supply rows can be sorted based on any of the column headings. The user can sort the rows by any of the three displayed columns by selecting the column header. Also, the user can sort the supply rows by selecting any of the criteria under the Sort menu item. This can be useful because the user can sort by a variable but it is not necessary to show that variable as one of the data columns. In general, these values are self explanatory, except for Supply Status. The sort by Supply Status operation sorts the Supply Rows in three or four groups, and by supply name within each of those groups:

Double-clicking a row in the Supply Manager will open the Edit Supply window for that Supply. This window, shown in Figure 3.25, can be used to change an individual supply’s name, release type or destination.

Selecting a row in the supplies area causes it to be selected. Multiple-row selection are also supported for operations that can apply to more than one supply, e.g. deletion or setting the Release Type or Destination.

Several operations are also available as buttons in a row along the bottom of the window. Currently these are the Configure Destination, Configure Source, Edit Destination, Edit Source and Close operations. The operations on Supplies are accessed from the Supply menu. They are defined as follows:

From the Object menu, operations are available on the destination object of the selected supply. The user can bring up either the Object Viewer (or Open Object) or the Object Account Summary window (showing the sums of series slots across a set of Accounts on a single object) for the selected object. In addition, accounting system windows can be accessed using the System menu including: Account System Configuration, Exchange Manager, Accounts Manager, and Object-level User-defined Accounting Method set editor.

The menu operation File, then Copy List to Clipboard copies a tabular string representation of the currently displayed Supply list to the System Clipboard. Fields are delimited with Tab characters, Lines are delimited with New Line characters -- suitable for importing into a spreadsheet, such as Microsoft Excel.